i have an IBM Thinkpad it gives this crazy problem which hard drie goes madly busy while the CPU usage is below 10%, i thought it might be the windows' background update service but 1) it keeps on going forever, 2) it is so busy that even mouse will freeze for about 20 seconds then cause the exisiting software to freeze.

this also happens to other windows xp pro machines (more ram's), i think it might be virus but they remain clean under norton antivirus 2002/2003, aldo have scanned with PC-cillin's online housecall service.

i don't know how to solve this problem with windows xp, and 98 systems doesn't seen to have this problem. i hope i can hear if anyone knows how to calm the hard drives down, thanks

your hard drive is critically low on space. the "virtual memory" refers to an area of the hard drive used when there isn't enough ram on your system, and you dont have enough ram, so the hard drive is being utilized a LOT. this compounded with lack of space on the hard drive is causing you major problems.

your c drive only has ~600 meg free, and if your swap file resides only on c, you CANT get more than that.

dont know what the problem is with the other machines, but more than likely this is going to be the source of the problems on this machine.

solutions would be:free up space on your system drive and/or move some of the pagefile to your other drivefree up space on both drivesget more ramget larger hard drive

yey i found the problem, its cidaemon causing it. thank you for listening, ha.

for those of who doesn't know, cidaemon is a "Content Indexing Daemon", a background process that builds a fast search index of the files on your computer. it will eat up large sum of memory.so disable it as you won't need it for xp.

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